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Jack Cummings

Jack Cummings

Producer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John "Jack" Cummings (February 16, 1905 – April 28, 1989) was an American film producer and director. He was the second husband of Betty Kern, daughter of Jerome Kern. Cummings spent most of his career at his uncle Louis B. Mayer's studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he began work in the 1920s. Mayer started his nephew out as an office boy and expected him to work his way up through the ranks. Cummings became a staff producer at MGM in 1934, where he worked in the B-feature unit for two years. In 1936, he produced the extravagant Cole Porter musical Born to Dance, which established his reputation as a respected producer. Cummings remained at MGM even after his uncle was fired from the studio in 1951, working with talent such as the Marx Brothers, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, and Fred Astaire and producing some of the era's best-known musicals, including 1953's Kiss Me Kate and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in 1954, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He left MGM to become an independent producer affiliated with Twentieth Century-Fox and produced the 1959 remake of The Blue Angel and the 1960 movie version of the Abe Burrows-Cole Porter Broadway musical Can-Can. In 1964, he returned to MGM one last time to produce the Elvis Presley musical Viva Las Vegas. Other credits included Easy to Wed, It Happened in Brooklyn, Three Little Words, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Interrupted Melody, and The Teahouse of the August Moon. Jack Cummings was the son of Ida Mayer Cummings, sister of Louis B Mayer. He had two sisters, Ruth (married to film director Roy Rowland) and Mitzi (married to film producer Sol Baer Fielding), as well as a younger half brother Leonard 'Sonny' Cummings. Mr. Cummings was survived by his four daughters, Julie Cummings Siff, of Manhattan, Kathy Cummings St. Aubin, of Los Angeles, Linda Kern Cummings, of Danville, Ky., and Carla Luisa Cummings, of Los Angeles.

Born: February 16, 1905 in New Brunswick, Canada

Died: April 28, 1989 (Age 84)

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Jack Cummings  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
5.6
ProductionProducer1962
Movie
6.3
ProductionProducer1944
Movie
6.9
ProductionProducer1936
Movie
6.5
ProductionProducer1937
Movie
7.1
ProductionProducer1940
Movie
5.7
ProductionProducer1944
Movie
6.5
ProductionProducer1960
Movie
5.9
ProductionProducer1946
Movie
6.1
ProductionProducer1953
Movie
6.7
ProductionProducer1940
Movie
6.3
ProductionProducer1939
Movie
6
ProductionProducer1943
Movie
6.5
ProductionProducer1955
Movie
6.8
ProductionProducer1953
Movie
6.3
ProductionProducer1938
Movie
6
ProductionProducer1952
Movie
6
ProductionProducer1955
Movie
6.5
ProductionProducer1949
Movie
5.6
ProductionProducer1954
Movie
7.5
ProductionProducer1954
Movie
6.2
ProductionProducer1942
Movie
5.1
ProductionProducer1953
Movie
5.3
ProductionProducer1951
Movie
6
ProductionProducer1959
Movie
6.2
ProductionProducer1954
Movie
6.8
ProductionProducer1947
Movie
6.3
ProductionProducer1961
Movie
7.3
ProductionProducer1949
Movie
6.5
ProductionProducer1957
Movie
5.1
ProductionProducer1935
Movie
7
ProductionProducer1950
Movie
6.6
ProductionProducer1950
Movie
6.5
ProductionProducer1964
Movie
6
ProductionProducer1938
Movie
5.1
ProductionProducer1976
TV Show
CreatorCreator-1934
Short Film
5.6
DirectingDirector1933
Short Film
5
DirectingDirector1930
Short Film
5.5
DirectingDirector1933
Short Film
5.4
DirectingDirector1933
Short Film
6.1
DirectingDirector1932
Short Film
5.4
DirectingDirector1933
Short Film
6.4
DirectingDirector1932
Short Film
7.2
ProductionProducer1934
Short Film
5.1
DirectingDirector1930
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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